source: Huffington Post
| By HOPE YENPosted: 05/17/2012 12:02 am Updated: 05/17/2012 9:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation’s racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now resulting in fewer Hispanics entering the U.S.
“This is an important landmark,” said Roderick Harrison, a former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau who is now a sociologist at Howard University. “This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders.”
Non-Hispanic US white births now the minority in US
Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, according to estimates of the latest US census data.
Black, Hispanic, Asian and mixed-race births made up 50.4% of new arrivals in the year ending in July 2011.
It puts non-Hispanic white births in the minority for the first time.
Sociologists believe the ongoing economic slowdown has contributed to a greater decline in birth rates among white people.
The US Census Bureau recorded 2.02m babies born to minorities in the year to July 2011, just over half of all births, compared with 37% in 1990.
Categories: Interesting Facts, United States
close the mexican boders
close the borders
too late, the mothers are already in the USA
Don what are you afraid of?
Please consider reading a book by Karen Armstrong regarding universal compassion and empathy:
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2012/05/religion/book-review-twelve-steps-to-a-compassionate-life-by-karen-armstrong